In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, he describes the grief and pain that he went through during the Holocaust. After being one if the very few survivors of this era he decided to explain to people why this time in history was important so it won’t happen again. Elie wanted people to understand the nature of madness that had erupted in history. He wanted to leave behind a legacy of words and memories to prevent this event from repeating itself. It was written to preserve a record of the event he encountered as a young kid. He wanted to give meaning to his survival and thought it was important to emphasize that book’s, just like people, have a destiny. Some books invite sorrow and some bring joy. The witness of this era has forced himself to testify for the kids of today, and the children tomorrow. He does not want his past to become their future. Only survivors and many killed only know the real life of Auschwitz. Elie's goal is to get people to focus on history that many people do not fully understand, to feel as if they went through the hardships of this time just as the Jews did.
Assignment 2: Holocaust Web Search
Nazi Propaganda
Who is Joseph Goebbels?
List three things the Nazis did to ensure that their views were shown/heard in the most persuasive manner possible.
Dr. Joseph Goebbels was In charge of the Propaganda in Nazi Germany
The Nazis ransacked libraries and had all books burned that did not fit into their or deal. They also persuaded people by using films. The Nazi were in charge of the films and made it so people would only watch films on the good part of the Nazis and the greatness of Hitler. Gobebbels organized a sale of cheap radios for everyone to buy so that they could hear Hitler speak. Loud speakers were put on the streets to persuade people into thinking Hitler was a great man.
Kristallnacht/ The Final Solution/ Wannsee Conference
On the "Night of broken Glass", November9-10, 1938, the Nazis broke into and burned into buildings, Jewish owned stores and over 267 synagogues. These attack killed at least 91 Jewish people.
At the Wannsee Conference Reinhard Heydrich, Heinrich Himmler and Adolf Eichmen met at a villa in Berlin to discuss and coordinate the implementation of the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question". This secret term was a code name for the systematic and physical annihilation of the European Jews.
The Victims
Besides the Jewish people, list seven other groups were also targets/victims of the Holocaust?
Briefly tell the fate of each group under Nazi rule.
Many other groups were victims of this era including Roma (Gypsies) people with disabilities, Poles, Soviet prisoners of war, Afro-Germans and the homosexuals.
Gypsies: German authorities subjected Roma's to arbitrary internment, forced labor and mass murder.
People with disabilities: Germans set up a group called "Euthanasia", killing mentally and physically disabled patients living in German-annexed territories.
Poles: Shot many Polish people and made men perform forced labor.
Prisoners of war: The Germans attacked Russian and cut them off from supplies and reinforcements until they surrendered.
Jehovahs Witnesses: They were subjected to intense persecution under the Nazi regime
Afro-Germans: They were isolated, persecuted, sterilized and brutally murdered.
Homosexuals: Many were persecuted, including dissolution from other homosexuals organizations or concentration camps.
The Ghettos
Describe the three types of ghettos, their purpose, and locations.
There were three types of ghettos: closed ghettos, open ghettos and destruction ghettos. The closed ghettos was in a German-occupied Poland and occupied Soviet armed by barbed wire where authorities compelled Jews living in a surrounding area to move into a close ghetto. Open ghettos Had no walls or fences but had certain restrictions on entering and leaving. Destruction ghettos were sealed off and existed for between 2-6 weeks Jews deported or were shot. (German occupied Soviet Union). People living in these ghettos were forced to live in miserable conditions and isolated Jews from other Germans.
These camps were used for a range of purposes including forced-labor camps, transit camps which served as temporary way stations, and extermination camps built primarily for mass murder.
The conditions were miserable and many Jews caught diseases while in the camps.
They killed many Jews by gas chambers burning them to death and by shooting.
The Soviets liberated these camps killing millions of Jews each day. Near the end of the war Germany surrendered because the Germans were unprepared for the cold winter in Russia. In result Hitler committed suicide.
During the Nuremberg Trials 24 defendents were tried representing a cross section German diplomatic, economic, political and military leadership.
They IMT decided that even though these men were educated and well spoken they were also mass crimonals.
The International Military Tribunal declared to the world that the "following orders" was not a legitimate defense for criminal acts.
Assignment 3: Images of Night
The Extermination
Jewish Germans
Hurting and Pained
Bleeding, Beat up and Dying
Like people crying being burnt alive
A mass fear of the dead
Digging
Up their very own graves
Table of Contents
Allie J. Night Assignments
Assignment 1: Reasons for Writing
In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, he describes the grief and pain that he went through during the Holocaust. After being one if the very few survivors of this era he decided to explain to people why this time in history was important so it won’t happen again. Elie wanted people to understand the nature of madness that had erupted in history. He wanted to leave behind a legacy of words and memories to prevent this event from repeating itself. It was written to preserve a record of the event he encountered as a young kid. He wanted to give meaning to his survival and thought it was important to emphasize that book’s, just like people, have a destiny. Some books invite sorrow and some bring joy. The witness of this era has forced himself to testify for the kids of today, and the children tomorrow. He does not want his past to become their future. Only survivors and many killed only know the real life of Auschwitz. Elie's goal is to get people to focus on history that many people do not fully understand, to feel as if they went through the hardships of this time just as the Jews did.
Assignment 2: Holocaust Web Search
List three things the Nazis did to ensure that their views were shown/heard in the most persuasive manner possible.
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/propaganda_in_nazi_germany.htm
The Nazis ransacked libraries and had all books burned that did not fit into their or deal. They also persuaded people by using films. The Nazi were in charge of the films and made it so people would only watch films on the good part of the Nazis and the greatness of Hitler. Gobebbels organized a sale of cheap radios for everyone to buy so that they could hear Hitler speak. Loud speakers were put on the streets to persuade people into thinking Hitler was a great man.
Wannsee Conference
http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/focus/kristallnacht/
Who attended and what was decided at the Wannsee Conference?
What was the Final Solution?
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005477
At the Wannsee Conference Reinhard Heydrich, Heinrich Himmler and Adolf Eichmen met at a villa in Berlin to discuss and coordinate the implementation of the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question". This secret term was a code name for the systematic and physical annihilation of the European Jews.
Briefly tell the fate of each group under Nazi rule.
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007457
CLUE: Begin reading at “Targeted Groups”
Gypsies: German authorities subjected Roma's to arbitrary internment, forced labor and mass murder.
People with disabilities: Germans set up a group called "Euthanasia", killing mentally and physically disabled patients living in German-annexed territories.
Poles: Shot many Polish people and made men perform forced labor.
Prisoners of war: The Germans attacked Russian and cut them off from supplies and reinforcements until they surrendered.
Jehovahs Witnesses: They were subjected to intense persecution under the Nazi regime
Afro-Germans: They were isolated, persecuted, sterilized and brutally murdered.
Homosexuals: Many were persecuted, including dissolution from other homosexuals organizations or concentration camps.
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005059
What was life like in the ghettos?
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007445
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005144
What were the conditions?
What different types of extermination were performed?
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005145
The conditions were miserable and many Jews caught diseases while in the camps.
They killed many Jews by gas chambers burning them to death and by shooting.
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005131
What did Hitler do near the end of the war?
How many defendants were charged during the Nuremberg Trials? What did they represent?
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007143
What did the International Military Tribunal decide was not a legitimate defense?
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007142
During the Nuremberg Trials 24 defendents were tried representing a cross section German diplomatic, economic, political and military leadership.
They IMT decided that even though these men were educated and well spoken they were also mass crimonals.
The International Military Tribunal declared to the world that the "following orders" was not a legitimate defense for criminal acts.
Assignment 3: Images of Night
The Extermination
Jewish Germans
Hurting and Pained
Bleeding, Beat up and Dying
Like people crying being burnt alive
A mass fear of the dead
Digging
Up their very own graves